20 years ago today the worst week in this country's post-war history began.

[Burney]

Did you know this issue of Private Eye, released soon after she'd died, was banned by most stores around the UK because it referenced the car? Literally, that was the reason. Not a picture of the car, just a reference.

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Yes. I bought it. It also had a bit inside headlined 'That's the way the Mercedes Benz', which made me laugh a great deal.

Basically, much of the issue was taken up by them juxtaposing the vicious things columnists had said about Diana the week before with the lachrymose bollöcks the self-same columnists came up with after her death. It was a welcome relief from all the bullshït at the time.

[Monty92]

Yes. I bought it. It also had a bit inside headlined 'That's the way the Mercedes Benz', which made me laugh a great deal.

Basically, much of the issue was taken up by them juxtaposing the vicious things columnists had said about Diana the week before with the lachrymose bollöcks the self-same columnists came up with after her death. It was a welcome relief from all the bullshït at the time.

Hitchens of the Peter variety is quite interesting on Diana here (written yesterday)

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co....na-affair.html

[Ash]

I just don't understand the mindset. But try and express the view that you really didn't care that much at the time and you had a good chance of getting punched. It was weird.

That is kind-of what it feels like much of the time to be a republican, tbh. Just turned up to eleven.

[Ash]

The week in which this country abandoned quiet dignity, reserve and stoicism and instead embraced hysteria, emotional incontinence, narcissistic displays of grief and - worst of all - public weeping.

And we'd just drawn 0-0 with Spurs.

Luckliy, when I woke early that morning to hear the news on the radio, I was off to Spain for a week on business. I hated travelling for work (and travel generally tbf) but I knew immediately that I'd been handed a fùcking lifeboat on that one.

Back in London on the saturday of the funeral, all the shops by my home off the Chalk Farm Road were shut, except for a motorbike shop and a french restaurant. I nearly bought a motorbike as a sign of disrespect.

It might have been a certain Mr B O'N who at the time came up with the phrase 'Mourning Sickness' to capture what you've described there.